Cheers to Body and Soul for noticing: Newspapers from a number of nations are covering the atrocities being committed against the Iraqi people by you know who. The US’s Boston Globe is too. So where are the rest of America’s mainstream media?

Thank goodness for Open Eyes, Open Ears, Open Mind, which opens up to kvetch about war profiteering and why Congressional Republicans didn’t do a damn thing to stop it.

Brian Flemming shares a bit of Thomas de Zengotita’s Harper’s Magazine article, which looks into how US right-wingers are casting themselves as rebels. Imagine that.

Mark A.R. Kleiman poses an appropriate question to GOPsters who moan and complain that libs aren’t nice enough: “If it’s wrong to call a President who current plans to run a second national campaign centered on a deception a ‘liar,’ because the word ‘liar’ is ‘incivil,’ what, pray, are we to call him?” I suggest “miserable failure.”

At Hammerdown, Spade Hammer pays tribute to the Shrub’s way of honoring US soldiers.

And Oxblog references a story from Scotland’s Sunday Herald: “In a new twist on the Mossad-was-responsible-for-9/11 shtick, the report suggests that Israel was aware that Al Qaeda had something big in the works but decided to keep quiet in the expectation that an attack on American citizens would generate sympathy for Israel.” Must-read stuff.

As is this: Left Is Right points to a terrific NPR interview with progressive presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich. Visit, read, and take a listen.